In an air battle between say...

Thirty-two Royal Australian Air Force Boomerang fighters...

Which is a good little aircraft if we are talking low detection profile (because this buggar is small) and is good at fighting at low altitude.

Vs.

Thirty-two of Japan's samurai of the air, the Zero...

Unlike the Boomerang, the Zero is faster, but the Zero lacks armor and it's fuel is prone to getting hit a lot.

Who would win?

5350303 Boomerang is bae and I'm biased.

5350303 Armament of each?

5350303
Without reading a file on each pilot, their combat experience, and their level of training; I'm not going to bet on either one. If one has more veteran pilots with better training then I'd go with that but here, not much to go on besides they aircraft they're flying.

5350311 Okay...
Zero: two 7.7mm machine guns and two 20mm cannons

Boomerang: Two 20mm cannons and two .303 cal. machine guns.

5350305 I have no idea what you meant but, okay.

5350319 Let's say that the era was mid-1942

5350349 Ok, if the have the same experience level in each plan and each plan is in perfect shape at average alitude then I say Boomerangs

5350356 okay

5350359 Cause from my experience the hap guns are shit

5350355
In '42 the Japanese would've been fighting with the Chinese and AVG for five years so my money is on the Japanese if they're all veterans of the China theatre.

5350374 True.

5350363 Very true.

5350422 War Thunder taught me that

5350303 if they have equal pilots, then my money is on the nimble zero.

5350355 I prefer the Boomerang, that meaning it's bae. I am biased towards it because I'm Australian.

5350303 the A6M is an overall more superior plane than the boomerang

5350465 ah I see.

5350303 With equally skilled pilots it would most likely be the Zero that comes out on top. It was faster, had better climb, and was more nimble.

5350363 5350455 >Using a video game for analysis.

wot

You must also think the Soviet ShKAS machineguns are laser beams then, because in War Thunder they have perfect accuracy, which, when combined with their high rate of fire, makes them fire like a continuous beam of death.

Whilst ShKAS machineguns had a really high rate of fire in reality, they did not have the laser pointer accuracy.

Also, I don't see what's wrong with the Emperor's Orange Tracers.

5350790 Don't care!

5350790 However the Boomerang pilots would probably prefer to stay at low altitude were their maneuverability is useful.

the australians from what i had seen because the 7.7mm is pretty weak.

5351028 Their armaments are pretty much the same. A .303 is a 7.7mm round, in fact Japanese 7.7mm was interchangeable with .303 British because they basically copied the British round directly. And both planes have two 20mm cannons.

if you have ever read a gun encyclopedia the 7.7mm JAPANESE round is very weak!

5351509 That lack of a reply embed.

Anyways.

The Japanese 7.7x56mmR was a direct copy of the .303 British, they had nearly identical performance as well as being interchangeable in guns. (IE a .303 British gun can fire 7.7x56mmR Japanese, and a 7.7x56mmR Japanese gun can fire .303 British.)

You're either thinking of a different Japanese 7.7mm round, such as the 7.7x58mm Arisaka, or don't know your stuff.

However, the machineguns on the A6M Zero fire the 7.7x56mmR round, so the Arisaka round's performance is irrelevant. An Zero is pretty much firing the exact same round as the Boomerang.

5351753 true but I'm thinking mid-1942

5351789

uh not a aircraft guy so...

more of a soviet war stuff guy